I believe Financial Planning for Preschoolers is VERY important. There is so much you can teach them and in this day and age it’s vital that they learn proper money handling skills.

I’m sure you all have memories of allowances as children. I remember getting $1. a week for allowance. I had to tithe 10% and put 10% into savings. With the 80 cents I had left I was allowed to spend it on whatever I liked. I remember going down to the corner store and buying candy sometimes and other times our family would go to garage sales and see what “treasures” we could find. Sometimes I’d save my allowance for a couple weeks so I could buy a bigger toy. (This was in the 1980’s so $1 a week went a lot farther than today.)

My parents were trying to teach me about money management and I admire them for that. But can we do more to teach our children about financial planning? I came across this site that was very informative and had some great ideas that were both fun and interesting to children.

The site is from The News Tribune. Check it out. There are many neat ideas on how to teach kids financial planning. This is a vital subject to teach our children. I hope you enjoy and get inspired.

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ere are some great pumpkin lesson plans. I hope you enjoy =)

Pumpkin Mosaic Seed Pictures

Items You Need:
Pumpkin Seeds (clean)
Tempera paint , dark colors work best
Paint brush
Zip Lock bag
Paper towels
Thick paper/poster board
Glue
Pencils
Wax paper
Newspaper

What You Do:

Put the seeds into a zip lock bag, squirt some paint on the seeds and mix the paint around until all seeds are covered in paint. Do this for as many colors as you need/want.

Spread the seeds out on wax paper and let dry.

While they are waiting for the seeds to dry, your child can draw a picture onto his/her poster paper. Some ideas include masks, fish or wild designs.
You can also take a very basic coloring book and trace a picture from it on to your poster paper. (You can use carbon paper to trace w/)

Remind your child to keep it simple, remember, they will be “coloring in” with seeds.

When the seeds are dry, they can be arranged and glued onto the poster paper in the appropriate areas.

Optional:
You can always use dried beans, lentils, popcorn or other types of seeds for this project, you don’t need to use pumpkin seeds. In fact, if you use dried beans, you can leave them in their natural colorful state (black eyed peas, red kidney beans etc).

Fall Wreath
This Autumn activity by Susan C. begins with an outdoor nature walk and ends with and indoor craft activity.

Materials: Leaves, acorns, pine cones, bow, brown paint and paper plates.

Description: Cut the center out of a paper plate and have the children paint the paper plate, brown. Next, go for a walk to find fall leaves, acorns and pine cones. When the plates are dry give the children glue and let them have fun. Away from the children, I use the hot glue gun to glue any loose pieces and the bow.

Here is a great song

Mr. Pumpkin?
(to the tune of:Are you sleeping)
Mr. Pumpkin, Mr. Pumpkin
Eyes so round, eyes so round
Fall is coming, Fall is coming,
To my town, to my town

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I was checking out ideas on science for preschoolers and came across this really cool site. Kids are naturally curious about science and how things work. What a great opportunity to help them learn about the world around them by doing experiments. I remember being awed as a kid by doing simple experiments. It’s wonderful that you can start so early with teaching them about how the world around them and instilling a natural curiosity and love for learning.

So check out this site at http://scienceforpreschoolers.com/

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